tell your doctor if you ve been to areas where certain fungal infections are common, and if you ve had tb, hepatitis b, are prone to infections, or have flu-like symptoms or sores. don t start humira if you have an infection. be there for you, and them. ask your gastroenterologist about humira. with humira, remission is possible. shepard: you are looking live. that s the river walk where cape fear river has made its way up on to the river walk in wilmington, north carolina. sad day in wilmington. a mom and infant daughter have been pronounced dead as a result of this storm. authorities went in to try to save them but couldn t. the husband has been taken to a nearby hospital. so they re hoping for no more fatalities in this storm, which has now officially claimed three lives. in south carolina, they may have missed the worst of it.
now and over the road. it looks like just complete kage down the street. you can see some from the interior of houses, furniture. the houses are torn apart by the wind, shepard. shepard: anybody that says it s a category one storm, it can t do that much doing, it certainly can if it beats on you and beats on you for 24 hours. that s what s been happening, steve. yeah, there s no way in or out when you re on an island here. the police closed down the island at 8:00. no cars in or out. the danger from the wind crossing the bridge. there were police checking on breaking and entering. there were a few incidents. a lot of people choosing to monitor their houses remotely. they can see initially some
hurricane. shepard: steve harrigan who is live along the coast now. that is north of the storm. so they still have the winds coming off the ocean. this is south of the storm in myrtle beach. so because of those counterclockwise winds, in this case, the winds are pushing the water away from the beach. look how the winds are blowing. you can see winds going out to the ocean. people along out there now because the ocean is receded a lot. you can see the winds pushing the sand out towards the beach that is all because of this counterclockwise flow. up in wilmington, north carolina, they re still getting the winds and the rain off the sea. not as bad as it was. there s bill hemmer that appears to be high and dry. hi, bill. hi, shepard. change of clothes here and we re back at it. you mentioned the fatalities. tough news for the city of wilmington. the police department putting out a statement about a woman and an infant killed when a tree
toward the camera and off the beach. flooding has intensified. the on-shore flow continues. they re still getting inland flooding all up and down the coast. it was this morning that the storm finally came ashore in wrightsville beach, north carolina, which is just off of wilmington. beach community there where, man, they ve just gotten a lot of wind and rain. rick reichmuth is live. hi, rick. i m rick leventhal. rick reichmuth is your chief meteorologist. shepard: very similar. true. the governor called this a 1,000 year storm around it s true. the wind has picked up. the hurricane hit us overnight, shepard. it came ashore at 7:00 a.m. the house was rocking that we rented a few doors from the
just a little bit. that is 8:00 tomorrow morning on saturday. should be right along that line. still with maximum sustained winds at 65 miles an hour. then by sunday morning much further inland as a low pressure center winds of about 30 miles an hour. but still dropping a lot of rain. let s take a look at the radar map now. that was a satellite image. here s the radar for perspective. this is charleston, south carolina here, which really never got much rain out of this system. it was always inching up on it. at the top, you can see elizabeth city, cape hatteras and the rest with wilmington here in the center. wilmington still getting a lot of rain. last report was, a woman and her infant child have died in the storm. the husband has ben taken to a nearby hospital. those are two of three confirmed deaths so far in this storm. this is expected to continue to move inland and wrap its way